Quick Portrait Background Replacement

Gavin Hoey

Gavin Hoey is a freelance photographer, writer and trainer of all things photographic. His work is regularly featured in photography magazines, websites and videos.
Gavin has a real passion for sharing his photography and Photoshop knowledge. In 2008 he started recording and uploading video tutorials to YouTube. These quickly gained a large following and to date his videos have been viewed over 20 million times.
In 2010 Gavin was the winner of Adobe’s “Next Photoshop Evangelist” competition and since then he has given training demonstrations in Photoshop, Lightroom and Photoshop Elements in the UK, Europe and the US.
In 2012 Gavin joined forces with Adorama as a presenter on Adorama TV, where he inspires and teaches photographers from around the world in the art of photography and post processing.

Working in a small home studio can limit the size and variety of backgrounds you have to work with. That’s where having the ability to create simple composite images can be super helpful.

In this video photographer Gavin Hoey shows you how to shoot your photos with composites in mind. He then takes you into Adobe Photoshop and demonstrates his quick and simple composite technique to take a portrait shot in a small studio and place it against a wall of sound background.

Learn more about photo composites, backgrounds, and portrait photography at 42West:

Download Gavin’s “Wall of sound” background here http://www.gavtrain.com/?p=6078